On Feb 26, 9:00 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Certainly, I'd expect that if x and y are both integers and x is an > exact multiple of y, then x/y will be computable and not overflow. > But try computing 10**5000 / 10**4000 under future division (that is > supposed to give a float).
And smaller numbers are problematic too: >>> from __future__ import division >>> 10**50/10**40 10000000000.0 >>> 10**60/10**50 9999999999.9999981 This despite the fact that the quotient *is* exactly representable as a float... Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
